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The Apify MCP server enables your AI agents to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites, or any other website using thousands of ready-made scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools available on the Apify Store.

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In the last 30 days, apify/apify-mcp-server merged 20 of 39 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 22 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars: 9.9k
Forks: 298
Open beginner issues: 22
Indexed issues: 263
Avg merge: 3d 22m
Merged PRs (30d): 81

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Oct 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Oct 7, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
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Annotation mismatches to fix before the ChatGPT app directory submission (#1590)
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1684 · Opened Oct 23, 2026

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report-problem: serve it to Claude clients and add sentiment and category
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1683 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 22, 2026

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fix: Close feature gaps after the Store search backend switch
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1673 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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Long-running Server Actor calls: reset the 120 s timeout on progress
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1666 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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feat: Show the server interface in search-actors cards
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1649 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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feat: Bound the body the default web-fetch tool returns over its server interface
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1648 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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feat: Serve the default web-fetch tool through its server interface
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1647 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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feat: Explain interface choice in instructions and descriptions
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1646 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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feat: Add fetch-actor-mcp-tool-list
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1644 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Re-enable run widgets once evals show the model continues after the run
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1641 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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test: Create test Actors from the integration suite instead of by hand
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1639 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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evals: Task and schedule cases that can't pass, a missing fixture, old SDK
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1636 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Run tools: key count in summary, ID as Actor name, oldest-first default
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1635 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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No way to read part of a page that comes back as one huge field
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1634 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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fetch-actor-details sends a blank developer when metadata isn't requested
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1633 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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fetch-actor-details drops input limits such as minimum and maximum
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 83/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1632 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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get-actor-run-list: name the Actor in each run
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1631 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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create-schedule: say when an Actor action names a saved task
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 77/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1630 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Tool fixes found by the Apify AI tool-set evals
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1629 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Tool error and description gaps found in a full 0.18.4 tool run
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1627 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Follow-ups from the review of the versions tools (#1453, #1454)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1626 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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test(evals): Cover the choice between Server Actor interfaces
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1625 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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feat!: Split MCP calls out of call-actor
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1624 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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feat: Record which Actor interface served a tool call
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Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1622 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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tools/list is large because of outputSchema; some clients truncate it
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1621 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Added 1-click config generator and setup guide for apify-mcp-server on MCP ServerList
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 30/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1618 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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✅ [Easy Install] apify-mcp-server — Latest Stable Release 2026
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1616 · 10 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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Master CI publishes beta to npm before checks finish
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1612 · Opened Oct 16, 2026

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test: Existing tests do not follow the testing guide
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Difficulty 4/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1607 · Opened Oct 16, 2026

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fix: API blocklist misses a doubled or escaped /v2 path prefix
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1604 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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test(evals): Revisit the report-problem-on-tool-error case
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1603 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Apify MCP Server scored A (98/100) in an independent MCP safety scan
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 5/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1596 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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fix: Direct Actor tools return input validation errors as protocol errors
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Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 62/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1594 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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fix: Memory and concurrent-run limit errors use the wrong API error types
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1592 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Finish the ChatGPT app directory submission
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1590 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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[spec] Fit server instructions and search-actors description in Claude Code's 2 KB limit
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1589 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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refactor: Gating of tool-name mentions is split across three mechanisms
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1588 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Hosted server logs a client's duplicate GET stream as an ERROR
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1584 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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fix: abort-actor-run nextStep cites data its response does not have
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1577 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

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call-actor with an empty actor fails as INTERNAL_ERROR
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1573 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2026

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Hosted server logs client input errors as SOFT_FAIL
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1572 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2026

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fix: Align nested Actor input defaults with platform behavior
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1557 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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fix: fetch-actor-details runs a Store search on every call
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1554 · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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ci: Release bump job fails on flaky reviewer request
May be free again @PeterFl0rian claimed this 9 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1551 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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chore: Small issues found in the 0.18.0 release test
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1547 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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test: Cover rag-web-browser and web-fetch tool description notes
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1537 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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fix: Stateless-era instructions render in default mode while tools/list resolves apps mode
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1531 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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fix: canRunActor ignores call-actor-widget; share one run-path predicate
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

apify/apify-mcp-server#1530 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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evals: Fail the run on an API auth error instead of scoring it as an agent miss
May be free again @QamerZaman123 claimed this 10 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1526 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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feat(evals): Score dropped trials per run in Langfuse
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apify/apify-mcp-server#1518 · Opened Oct 11, 2026

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